The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.

As soon as people start bloviating about how democracy will save us from all evil, I point out that the 120,000 people who lost their lives after the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, probably wouldn't accept that definition of "freedom." And before you say "but...," remember the Dresden bombings, where innocent civilians were practically roasted alive. Together with the meaningless wars in Middle East, we see that democracy is not the innocent image of Good that it portrays itself as in the media. Rather ironically, championing world peace and equality, it always manages to find new enemies to crusade against (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Saddam, bin Laden - next up Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?).